Spare-rim holder.



B. B. BRADLEY.

' SPARE RIM HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED on. s, 1908.

Patented Nov. 23, 1909.

BENJAMIN B. BRADLEY, or nnraorr, MICHIGAN, Assumes, To rssnonn c. Fannie, 0E nnrnorr, streetcars.

EiEfiRE-RIM To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, BENJAMIN B. BRAD- LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Vilayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in Spare dtim Holders, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description or the same, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it pertains to make and use the same, refer- -Fig. 3, is a plan of the wheel attaching clamp. v

The tire seat 1 is similar in shape and form to the ordinary tire seat. It is held in relation to the ordinary tire seat A by means of four clamps or hooks, at least two of which are adjustable hooks each being provided with a body part 11, adapted to engage closely against the inside of the rim 1, and with a goose-neck 1:2, and a hi i 13, adapted. to hook over the edge of the regularitire seat, as represented in 2; the other two hooks may be rigid and :tied to the same innerface of the tire seat 1, with their similarly curved goose neck and bill portions extending-to one side for engagement With'the adjacent edge of the tire seat A. For very evident reasons of adjustment, each one of the fixed hook members must be diametrically opposite one ot' the adjustable hooks, or at least the fixed hooks must not be diametrically opposite to one another. 0n the inner face of the auxiliary tire seat 1 are bolted or secured bearing lugs 4 and 5, in whieh is journaled a cam ed to engage closely against the body part of the hook 11, that is placed between the inner face of the tire'seat and the cam. The hook 121, which engages so loosely bet-ween Specification of Batters Patent.

npgilioation filed Qctober 8, 1903.

6 adapt- Patented Elev. ea, loos: Eerial Ho. stare 'he cam 6 and the opposite face of the auxriliary tire seat 1, that, by careful handling,

it can be removed from such position, has passing through its angula (at the opposite end from the goose noel: 12), the set screw 9, which, the cam 5 has been actuated, so as to press the body part of hook 1i closely against the auxiliary tire seat, engages against a slightly recessed portion of the cam member which is, by its movement to this position, brought in axial alinement with the set screw, and when thus adjusted thereagainst, the set screw prevents the return of the cam to its open position, which would permit of the moving or" the hoolr' 11, above referred to. [the screw 9 thus holds the can). in position after it has'been forced to position, and produces a strong and firm support for the auxiliary tire seat 1 on which the vehicle maybe carried with safety, as upon the ordinary wheel. Two of the hooks 11 are preferably used to coact with cams to secure the auxiliary tire seat in place, and two hooks without cams, the fourv being suiiicient under ordinary circumstances to hold the auxiliary tire seat in place.

What I claim is 1. As a means for securing an auxiliary or spare wheel to a vehicle wheel, in combination with the rim of the spare Wheel, a pair of abutnients fined having a hooked terminal, adapted to engage over the edge of the main wheel rim, engaging with its body tion of the rim of the spare wheel intermediate said abutn ents, an eccentr' otally supported between rd abutments and adapted to be forced into engagement with said hook meniber and to thereby hold it firmly against said wheel justing screw of said clamp mein er and against saideccentric member, whereby the latter niay'be firmly held in position against said clamp member, substantially as described.

In combination with the rim of a spare Wheel, a cam member pivotally supported thereby, a loose hook adapted to engage between the cam and the rim, said hook being provided with a terminal bill for engaging the rim otthe main wheel its body ortio rear terminal theretoya clamp member portion against that pon- 0 member pivand an adengaging through a portion firm against the adjacent face ofthe spare tially as described;

wheel rim and to thereby-press its terminal x bill against the inner'f'ace of the rim of'the catlon in the refsence of two Witnesses.

5-;1I 1ain wheel,- and a screw passing through the B NJAMIN B. BRADLEY.

'igippdsite end of the hook member from the ter Witnesses I minal bill and engagin against the cam CHARLES FI BUR'rbN, member, whereby it is he (1 from unintended ELLIOTT .J. STODDARD.

' beinadapte to be forced by said cam release from its clamping position substan- In testimony whereof, I sign this specifi- 

